Yes. But in the meeting you promised to come back to the issue of how this can be made to work business-wise. The problem that I can see isthat if all PTRs announce the whole (or big chunks of it), they have no capability to say no to any customer. Anyone's packets can be routed tothe nearest PTR, and once the PTR has a packet, it cannot refuse to tunnel it to the right place. So from a business point of view thismakes it hard or perhaps impossible to contract with customers for thisservice. Presumably the motives for deploying PTRs must then lieelsewhere, such as in improving your regular customer's service, or someinteraction with the business models of plain old Internet SP business models.
There are only 2 technical solutions, NATs or PTRs. They can solve the problem. If you choose something else that you think makes business sense it could not even come close to solving the problem.
Let's first worry about solving the technical problem. Or else we don't have to worry about any business models.
Have you thought more about this now, and can you say something about iton the list?
It's the same answer I said when I was standing up at RRG. Providers will do whatever they can to attract traffic. They typically don't want to say no. The more traffic they attract the more peering they can get. And the business opportunities start from there.
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